The Fighting Continues

The Israelis are finding harder than they expected to dislodge Hezbollah. The fighting remains heavy according to the New York Times: Israel Suffers Bloodiest Day of Fight With Hezbollah

The Israelis will no doubt prevail in some sense. They will “sanitize” whatever area they want to and then will leave behind a scorched zone that they expect someone else, other than Hezbollah, to occupy. So it looks like our tax money will have to pay for Israel’s security zone.

The problem they have is that they have just made militants out of thousands of Shiite Arabs who happen to be Hezbollah’s recruiting base. So this round of “sanitization” surely won’t last long.

Plus I imagine that they are concerned that they have met this much resistance. The fight being put up is an indication that the Israelis, even with all the weapons that the Americans ship to them, are not as overwhelming as they thought. Yes they’ll “win” in the short term. But in the longer term the various terrorists and resistance groups will be encouraged that the massive asymmtery between the American backed Israelis juggernaut and the Iranian/Syrian backed terror groups has been evened out a bit.

Elsewhere over there I see that Condi’s great initiative is getting nowhere. No one can agree on a peace proposal. The US is isolated diplomatically because of its Israeli bias. Everyone else is an uproar over the UN deaths. And George is home riding his bike waiting for the Israelis to kill everyone in southern Lebanon.

This will drag on a bit longer I think. The US doesn’t want it to stop just yet.